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Doda Ellahi and Ghamshad Baloch — students of Karachi University’s Philosophy Department allegedly taken away from their house in the city on June 7 — have returned home, Nasarullah Baloch, chairman of non-profit organisation Voice of Balochistan Missing Persons said on Tuesday.
In a brief confirmation, the activist told Dawn.com that the students returned to their home near Maskan Chowrangi in Gulshan-i-Iqbal after 3am. “They both belong to the Kech district of Balochistan,” he added.
Earlier in the day, Shayhaq Ellahi and HudaHair Ellahi, siblings of Doda, had tweeted that their brother and his friend had been “safely released”. Dawn.com was able to confirm that the accounts belonged to Doda’s family members.
Both of them went on to thank God and all the people who stood with the family during the difficult time.
Protest outside Sindh Assembly
The development comes a day after relatives, activists and friends of the two students were forcefully dispersed by police, and more than two dozen of them were briefly arrested from outside the main gate of the Sindh Assembly in Karachi.
They were there to protest against the pair’s “arrests”. The demonstrators had camped out outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) for the last four days.
The police action was widely condemned, as footage emerged of police personnel dragging peaceful protesters and stuffing them in police vans.
South-SSP Asad Raza told Dawn that the police detained 19 men and nine women as they tried to enter the assembly building. The officer denied that protesters were treated roughly. He added that woman police officers had detained female protesters.
Meanwhile, the protest organisers accused the police of manhandling women and children. They said the Sindh police had retracted from their promise of arranging a meeting of the missing students’ relatives with Counter Terrorism Department officials on Monday. Therefore, the organisers continued, they staged a sit-in near the Sindh Assembly building again where the police manhandled and arrested protesters.
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